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YES - I want America to be like every other big government, central control nation

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Yesterday, on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, Rush mentioned and played a few snippets of a video produced and posted by FreeMarketAmerica.org.
The presentation gave light to the how and why America appears to be
going backward and failing on the goals and opportunity that had once
been hallmarks to a free and Constitutional America.

Ryan Houck, the Executive Director of FreeMarketAmerica.org, a
project of Americans for Limited Government, produced this opinion
presentation which was inspired by Paul Harvey’s “If I were the Devil”
published in 1964 and 1996.

Paul Harvey was a cultural and news story commentator that became one of the first to reach millions of people with his
presentations. He used the medium of radio in the form of a 15 minute
syndicated show that generally aired around noon and The Paul Harvey
Show helped to stitch part of the fabric of a true American culture or
insight on a way to think or view the world around us.

This excerpted and edited from TruthOrFiction.Com -

“If I were the Devil”By Paul Harvey

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack then family, the backbone of any nation. I would
make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family
crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined
by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as
politically correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them
believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and
obedience are optional;

I GUESS I WOULD LEAVE THINGS PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THEY ARE![Reference Here]

So how does this approach to understanding give us insights on how
American life has changed under a Barack Obama presidency and have us
understand the power of progressive thought as it is applied to our
every day lives?

To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream — I’d start with energy.

I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. Of
course, I couldn’t take it by force. So, I’d make Americans feel guilty
for using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs
their businesses, and powers their economy.

I’d make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.

I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all-but-outlaw America’s
most abundant sources of energy. And after banning its use in America,
I’d make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.

If I wanted America to fail …

I’d use our schools to teach one generation of Americans that our
factories and our cars will cause a new Ice Age, and I’d muster a
straight face so I could teach the next generation that they’re causing
Global Warming.

And when it’s cold out, I’d call it Climate Change instead.

I’d imply that America’s cities and factories could run on wind
power and wishes. I’d teach children how to ignore the hypocrisy of
condemning logging, mining and farming — while having roofs over their
heads, heat in their homes and food on their tables.

I would never teach children that the free market is the only
force in human history to uplift the poor, establish the middle class
and create lasting prosperity. Instead, I’d demonize prosperity itself,
so that they will not miss what they will never have.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would create countless new regulations and seldom cancel old
ones. They would be so complicated that only bureaucrats, lawyers and
lobbyists could understand them. That way small businesses with big
ideas wouldn’t stand a chance — and I would never have to worry about
another Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Jobs.

I would ridicule as “Flat Earthers” those who urge us to lower
energy costs by increasing supply. And when the evangelists of
commonsense try to remind people about the law of supply and demand, I’d
enlist a sympathetic media to drown them out.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would empower unaccountable bureaucracies seated in a distant
capitol to bully Americans out of their dreams and their property
rights. I’d send federal agents to raid guitar factories for using the
wrong kind of wood; I’d force homeowners to tear down the homes they
built on their own land.

I’d make it almost impossible for farmers to farm, miners to
mine, loggers to log, and builders to build. And because I don’t
believe in free markets, I’d invent false ones. I’d devise fictitious
products — like carbon credits — and trade them in imaginary markets.
I’d convince people that this would create jobs and be good for the
economy.

If I wanted America to fail …

For every concern, I’d invent a crisis; and for every crisis, I’d
invent the cause. Like shutting down entire industries and killing tens
of thousands of jobs in the name of saving spotted owls. When everyone
learned the stunning irony that the owls were victims of their larger
cousins — and not people — it would already be decades too late.

If I wanted America to fail …

I’d make it easier to stop commerce than start it — easier to
kill jobs than create them — more fashionable to resent success than to
seek it. When industries seek to create jobs, I’d file lawsuits to stop
them. And then I’d make taxpayers pay for my lawyers.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would transform the environmental agenda from a document of
conservation to an economic suicide pact. I would concede entire
industries to our economic rivals by imposing regulations that cost
trillions.

I would celebrate those who preach environmental austerity in
public while indulging a lavish lifestyle in private. I’d convince
Americans that Europe has it right, and America has it wrong.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would prey on the goodness and decency of ordinary Americans. I
would only need to convince them … that all of this is for the greater
good.

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I want the socialist liberals to fail in their agenda to steal from those who are successful and provide us jobs, taking away our free speech and trying to take away our 2nd Amendment Right. The Fast and Furious scandal is one way that they tried, and failed, to get public support for banning guns. They should just move to a country that already has socialist anti-gun laws.

i agree with you, anna;as much as i loved harvey, and the rest of the story, paul harvey seemed to have wanted america to be a christian theocracy.this second poet, sounds like koch brothers' propaganda......................

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On one hand, I don't want to see America fail. On the other hand, I do and I want it to fall hard. To me, the only way Americans will wake up and stop treating elections like a damn TV show like "Dancing with the Stars" or "American Idol" is for this country to be stripped away with nothing.

I want the socialist liberals to fail in their agenda to steal from those who are successful and provide us jobs, taking away our free speech and trying to take away our 2nd Amendment Right. The Fast and Furious scandal is one way that they tried, and failed, to get public support for banning guns. They should just move to a country that already has socialist anti-gun laws.

A central government making the decision for the people is called a dictatorship - we fought to be relieved of that burden - no reason to regress to that form again and that appears to be the desire of Obama and his followers

Oh Striker - stop it, you have to comment on what I say on polls - while the attention is flattering, it is unrelated to the polls and you are beginning to sound just plain silly. Go follow someone else

Personally, I do not wish to compromise the ability to make decisions about how I make my living (legally), spend the money I make, and how I wish to live my live within the basic constraints of the Constitution of the United States.

Really, how much government (all forms) is too much government for someone who believes as you do.

This federal government is way out of control as evidenced by the fact that it has not passed or run on a budget for OVER 1,000 days! I suppose you do not have a problem with this one outrageous fact of (mostly) Democrat and Republican leadership.

In Jan 2009 the CBO projected budget deficits until 3014 de to the economic state, bush's tax cuts and if the current policy continued. No one is surprised at deficits. Majority of people want to see compromise in their leaders, bipartisanship. But the opposition is not having any of that because they are dead set against this country looking good, because it may make the president look good. LOL It's expected that the unemployment rate will be below 8%, around 7.8% by the election. Our government was out of control for eight long years with over $5 trillion in NEW spending, something citizens will not ever forget.

Again, I suppose you do not have a problem with this one outrageous fact of (mostly - they controlled Congress since 2006) Democrat - 6 Trillion in only 3.5 years under Barack Obama and Republican under G.W. Bush - 4 Trillion in 8 years leadership. Maybe it is the Democrats that need to compromise on ... SPENDING.

Bush had over $7 trillion in new spending, Obama has had $1.4 trillion in new spending. America cannot afford the republicans they are too expensive. Dems took control of congress in Jan 2007, however, not
In time to stop bush's recession a few months later.

Your information is not correct - Stimulus and Omnibus in 2009 alone were nearly 2 Trillion and the Federal Government has been allowed to grow in their budgets by at least 25% in an an almost 2% growth economy. Get real.

Employees are hired, for example, to repair a bridge with stimulus money with both the employees wages and materials for the bridge coming from the stimulus. Next time listen to a source that separates the actual wage of the individual from the total costs for a project.

You wish it hadn't worked. "The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package continues to have a significant effect.

The bill raised fourth-quarter 2011 gross domestic product by as much as 1.5 percent, it states, and lowered the unemployment rate by as much as 1.1 percentage points.

The package reduced the rolls of the jobless by up to 2 million people in the last three months of 2011.
The CBO analysis is very similar to the last stimulus report it produced in November. It continues to predict that in 2012, the stimulus will increase the number of people employed by up to 1.1 million." http://thehill.com/blogs/on-t...

Fact is, I'm the only one who has posted facts, and have proven you wrong ... about 5 or so responses back. Maybe you are just blind, or do not have the capacity to read graphic material, or know how to add.

This is not about your character, just your lack of reality as it relates to responding to facts when they are presented to you ... there is a disconnect.